Blue cat
The Kater Blau is a Berlin techno club that follows the tradition of the predecessor clubs Bar 25 and Kater Holzig .
The operator is the Kater Club GmbH, founded in 2014 . The managing director is Christoph Klenzendorf, who had previously co-founded the two predecessor clubs.
history
overview
Both personally and from a musical concept, as well as from the occupied places and setting forth can be a close connection between the hangover Blue over the hangover Woody to Bar 25 draw.
Bar 25
The Bar 25 (proper spelling Bar25 short bar ) was a techno club on the river Spree in Berlin-Friedrichshain , a few meters away from the site of present-day hangover blues. In the period of its existence from 2004 to 2010, Bar 25 developed into one of the most important clubs in the city and also achieved international fame.
hangover Woody
After the end of Bar 25, the operators opened the spacious Club Kater Holzig on the other side of the Spree in an old soap factory, where Club Planet had been located until 1993. On the part of the landlord, use was limited to three years from the start. Just like Bar 25 before , the Kater Holzig became internationally known. Under the trademark Katermukke , registered by resident Dirty Doering in his real name at the patent office , the makers went public with a label that survived the hangover Holzig and is also maintained in the subsequent hangover blue . Originally, the club was supposed to continue to operate under the same name on the northern side of the Spree after the end of its scheduled usage time. The operating company KaterHolzig GmbH soon got into economic difficulties and filed for bankruptcy, so that the new club was operated under the new name Kater Blau from the first weekend in August 2014 .
Land purchase
After the closure of Kater Holzig , part of the crew turned back to the northern bank of the Spree. The area on which Bar 25 was located was owned by BSR and was to be sold to a real estate developer. It was part of the Mediaspree development plan and should be built on with office buildings.
New plans
In the meantime, the operators have reorganized as the Holzmarkt plus cooperative . In cooperation with the Basler Pension Fund Foundation Abendrot , they submitted a purchase bid for the 18,000 square meter bar area on Holzmarktstrasse and were accepted. The foundation has owned the area since then, and the cooperative acts as a long-term leaseholder . The purchase price was not published; according to the seller, it was the highest bid. Experts estimate the purchase price in the region of 50 million euros .
Blue cat
In the summer of 2014, the Kater Blau opened on the edge of this area on the northern bank of the Spree , almost where Bar 25 was originally .
The blue hangover regularly opens in the night from Friday to Saturday around midnight and closes on Saturday afternoon. On the night of Sunday the club opens again around midnight and is then open continuously until Monday evening. Sometimes the parties go longer. Musically, there is a wide range of house and techno DJs on the program, from previously unknown to internationally known artists, such as Claude VonStroke in August 2015 or Moonbootica in September 2015 . One of the residents is still Dirty Doering , who had already hung up in Bar 25 . Depending on the season, time and program, shorter or longer queues form in front of the entrance door. The bouncers, some of whom have also worked for the previous clubs, are known for their comparatively strict selection of guests. Inside the building there are two dance floors, the Heinz Hopper Floor , which is used all the time, and the slightly smaller Acid Arch . The spacious outdoor area also includes the deck of a seasonally anchored boat. Here, too, DJs sometimes play at selected events during the day and in good weather. Parts of the bar furnishings still come from Bar 25 .
Outside of the usual opening times, other cultural events, such as theater performances, readings or panel discussions, take place on the premises.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic , the blue hangover was presumably one of the Berlin clubs in which guests, according to media reports, contributed to the spread of the virus in Berlin after an infected guest had partied for 17 hours in the club at the beginning of March. The operators then closed the club before the official order from the city.
The club took part in the “ United We Stream ” campaign of the Berlin club scene, which suffered massive losses due to the measures taken against COVID-19 .
Holzmarkt concept
The follow-up project Holzmarkt was planned there since the mid-2010s , which should take up the concept of Bar 25, but is much larger. Multi-storey wooden buildings were planned as workshops, living spaces and event areas on the site. The aim is to develop a complete district in which culture, trade and urban agriculture are equally given a place. The main project, the corner factory with the innovative wooden high-rises, subsequently received no planning and therefore no building rights for various reasons. The project had to be shelved.
Latest development since summer 2019
The Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Office also intervened in the planning in 2019. This agreed with the previous Holzmarkt cooperative to withdraw from the project. And a contract is being prepared with the owner, the Swiss Abendrot Foundation , that multi-storey buildings with affordable student apartments and a start-up center will be built on the site. Commercial tenants, for whom a third of the usable space is earmarked, are being sought in cooperation with a university institution and a municipal housing association.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kater Holzig celebrates reopening .
- ↑ a b Des Kater Holzig's successors dance in a headlock in the Berlin newspaper Kater Blau .
- ^ Homepage of Blue Cat
- ^ Philipp Oehmke: Hipster Village: Berlin Nightlife Grows Up. In: Spiegel Online . September 4, 2014, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article114296121/Projekt-Holzmarkt-Die-grosse-Freiheit-an-der-Spree.html
- ↑ Björn Seeling: By bike to the legendary clubs of Berlin. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 29, 2015, accessed November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Kater Holzig on youtube.com
- ↑ Kater Holztiug: Music and Party
- ↑ Kater Holzig crosses over to the other side of the Spree on Berliner Morgenpost .
- ↑ Ralf Schönball: Telephone, gas, electrics, unpaid, and that works too . In: Tagesspiegel , November 4, 2014.
- ↑ To say goodbye to Bar 25, the police arrived . In: Tagesspiegel , September 14, 2009.
- ↑ Tobias Rapp : Showdown on the Spree . In: Der Spiegel , 24/2012.
- ↑ Lars von Törne: Kater Holzig prevails . In: Tagesspiegel , October 3, 2012.
- ↑ Sebastian Leber and Ralf Schönball: In the great stream of sympathy . In: Tagesspiegel , October 14, 2012.
- ^ Thomas Loy: BSR supervisory board approves sale of wood market . In: Tagesspiegel , October 18, 2012.
- ↑ Blue cat: The machine man with the fruit hits on www.bz-berlin.de.
- ↑ Hubertus Regout: Finally celebrate in the blue hangover again , at www.bz-berlin.de.
- ↑ Club undercover: Blue Cat .
- ↑ Spreeclubs fight against growing up on www.berliner-zeitung.de.
- ↑ How a club became a source of infection , welt.de, March 24, 2020
- ↑ Corona infected party celebrated in the club: Authorities are looking for contact persons from Club "Kater Blau" rbb24.de from March 15, 2020
- ↑ "Fateful party in" Hangover Blue "- visitors tested positive for coronavirus" tagesspiegel.de from March 15, 2020
- ↑ Many Berlin clubs are anticipating the shutdown. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Home. Accessed April 14, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Friedrichshain - Holzmarkt restart . rbb24 , July 26, 2019, accessed July 30, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 41 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 36 ″ E